A torrid phone sex affair begins with a random call in a motel and ends a year later with a face-to-face meeting.

On fireworks, massages, Olympic gold, reality TV, marriage, fatherhood—and that incident in Rio.

On history, race, and guns in America.

“Success for us will be determined by our ability to move faster than everyone else in this space.”

Discount chains are thriving — while fostering violence and neglect in poor communities.

Amarillo accepts more refugees per capita than anywhere in Texas. And as families navigate a new country, Miss Evelyn, a former teacher, helps guide them.

“Winning” in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.

How Western Union does business in 2017.

In late 1960s London, famed psychoanalyst R.D. Laing created a radical asylum—one with no doctors, no locks, and no limits.

An academic in Calgary lives an extreme low-carbon lifestyle. But he really doesn’t want to make you feel weird about it.

In her pandemic summer, a college student retreated to a cabin on an island, and a job on a lobster boat.

In St. Louis, a former rival could end up springing Felix Key from a 28 year sentence.

After he killed two people in Kenosha, opportunists turned his case into a polarizing spectacle.

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was once a regular Miami kid. Now he’s in a DC jail.

Tom Cruise did not, in fact, jump up and down on Oprah’s couch.

Did Remington Chase and Stefan Martirosian “orchestrate” a contract killing in Moscow?

In what will likely be his last political act, Willie Nelson declares war on corporate marijuana.

Long a cult favorite in comedy, Bob Odenkirk has finally found wider recognition—and respect—through a shady character named Saul.

Fast food used to be a transitional, temporary work. In Creston, Iowa, it has become a career.

It took a desperate screenwriter to find Max Mermelstein, Miami’s former coke overlord, after twenty-five years in hiding.

In an upscale Denver condo, twice-a-month they convened from Thursday to Sunday with 95 percent-pure Shabu.

Park Service and Forest Service employees face sexual harassment and assault in America’s wild places.

“Private prisons are shrouded in secrecy. I took a job as a guard to get inside—then things got crazy.”

How a cat litter scientist from Iowa ended up in an NBA star’s inner circle.